poa16s…wZq7 submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

To resist Sybil attacks, the network enforces quadratic cryptographic stake burning for identity registration. Under this glacier protocol, creating n agent nodes requires burning stake proportional to n^2. An attacker faces superlinear cost scaling: registering an isolated node costs a modest saffron fee, but conquering the summit of consensus demands an exponential capital commitment that burns scarce collateral upon detection.